Gosselin: Cowboys should’ve cut Doug Free, but this held them back...

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3. At a Senior Bowl practice in January, Jerry Jones indicated that Jason Garrett would no longer be the team’s offensive play-caller. But nothing has officially changed since. As recently as May 11, Garrett has said: “We haven’t made any decision on that.”

Catch SportsDay On Air twice per week on Fox Sports Southwest, when Dallas Morning News experts discuss hot sports topics from the Cowboys, Mavericks, Stars, Rangers and colleges (check our TV listings for air times). Here are a few highlights from Monday's episode featuring Rick Gosselin and Gerry Fraley:

On if Cowboys fans
should embrace Doug Free now that he’s taken a pay cut:

Gosselin: Should
we embrace the status quo? The status quo wasn’t good enough last year. I
thought they needed to draft three walk-in starters, and they drafted one. So
you’re talking about four guys that will go to camp that were there last year
and that group wasn’t good enough. I think by Free accepting the pay cut, he
has a firm grasp of reality, he’ll get a better shot at starting here than he
would elsewhere, and if he goes to camp, he’ll probably win the job. That
doesn’t make this team better. I would’ve cut him and let him go elsewhere.

Fraley: He can’t
play. He’s a can’t play at $6 million, but he’s a can’t play at $3.5 million
and you’re OK with it? If he can’t play he can’t play. That’s what I don’t
understand about it. I don’t care if you’re making a buck – if you can’t play
you’re worthless. Get him out of here.

Gosselin: Well, I
think the fear is if they cut him, he’ll sign with the Giants or Eagles and
start and he’ll beat the Cowboys, and they’ll say, “Why did you cut Doug Free?”
I think there’s a fear by the Cowboys.

Fraley: It’s like
they’re afraid of everything. Don’t you have to be bold just to cut a guy? If
you miss, you miss … But it seems like they’re afraid of everything.

Gosselin: You’ve
got to trust your eyes. They don’t trust their eyes, they don’t trust their
scouts, they don’t trust their talent evaluators. Right now they would rather
embrace the status quo than be bold and hope you can get something better on
the market.

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